Women Lawyers in Film and Television<\/p>\n
Babicoff, Richard, How far have you come, baby? Women lawyers on TV, in movies show that it hasn’t been far enough<\/em>, 100 L. A. Daily J. 4 (December 21, 1987).<\/span><\/p>\n Brinkerhoff, Corinne, Reality Bites: Boston Legal’s Creative License With the Law, <\/i>in Lawyers in Your Living Room, (Michael Asimov ed., ABA, 2010) at 253.<\/span><\/p>\n Corcos, Christine A., Damages: The Truth Is Out There,<\/i> in Lawyers in Your Living Room, (Michael Asimov, ed. ABA, 2010), at 265.<\/span><\/p>\n Corcos, Christine A., Portia and Her Partners in Popular Culture<\/em>, 22 Legal Stud. F.<\/u> 269 (1998). Includes bibliographies and lists of women attorneys in film, television and fiction.<\/span><\/p>\n Corcos, Christine A., Women Lawyers,<\/em> in Prime Time Law<\/u> 219 (Robert Jarvis and Paul Joseph eds., 1998).<\/span><\/p>\n Diamond, Valerie Frances, Women in law: a novel approach, 1980-1996<\/em>, 16 Legal Ref. Serv. Q.<\/u> 9 (1997).<\/span><\/p>\n Diggs, Terry Kay, No way to treat a lawyer; when screen lawyers are women, Hollywood changes the rules<\/em>, Cal. Law.<\/u>, December 1992, at 48. Argues that women lawyers are portrayed primarily as the cause of disorder and chaos. “…[W]omen lawyers do not find the truth, they obfuscate it; they do not restore order, they destroy it…Hollywood’s female lawyers are not in court when justice is restored, and they do not act as lawyers.”<\/span><\/p>\n Dixon, Marion, In Portia’s footsteps: women lawyers in literature<\/em>, 24 U. W. Aus. L. Rev.<\/u> 68 (1994).<\/span><\/p>\n Fineman, Martha A., and Martha T. McCluskey, Feminism, Media & the Law<\/u> (NY: Oxford University Press, 1997). Contains several chapters on women lawyers in popular culture.<\/span><\/p>\n Goff, David H., Lynda Dysart Goff, and Sara Kay Lehrer, Sex-role portrayals of selected female television characters<\/em>, 24 J. Broadcasting<\/u> 467 (1980).<\/span><\/p>\n Goldberg, Stephanie Benson, Bar Girls? Images of Women Lawyers on TV Slowly Improving, Panel Says<\/em>, 76 A.B.A. J.<\/u> 41 (April 1990).<\/span><\/p>\n Graham, Louise Everett and Geraldine Maschio, A False Public Sentiment: Narrative and Visual Images of Women Lawyers in Film<\/em>, 84 Ky. L.J.<\/u> 1027 (1996). In-depth discussion of Adam’s Rib<\/u>, The Accused<\/u>, Music Box<\/u>, The Client<\/u>, and Class Action<\/u>. Along with Shapiro, Women Lawyers in Celluloid<\/em>, below, a must read.<\/span><\/p>\n Harrington, Mona, Media<\/em>, in Women Lawyers: Rewriting the Rules<\/u> (NY: Plume Books, 1995), at 151-170.<\/span><\/p>\n Howarth, Joan W., Women Defenders on Television: Representing Suspects and the Racial Politics of Retribution<\/i>, 3 J. Gender, Race & Just.<\/u> 475 (Spring 2000).<\/span><\/p>\n Kamir, Orit, Feminist Law and Film: Imagining Judges and Justice<\/i>, 75 Chi.-Kent L. Rev.<\/u> 899 (2000).<\/span><\/p>\n Lucia, Cynthia, Framing Female Lawyers: Women on Trial in Film<\/em> (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005)<\/p>\n Lucia, Cynthia, Women on Trial: The Female Lawyer in the Hollywood Courtroom<\/em>, 19 Cin\u00e9aste<\/u> 32 (1991).<\/span><\/p>\n Marder, Nancy, Judging Judge Judy,<\/i> in Lawyers in Your Living Room, (Michael Asimov ed., ABA, 2010), at 299. <\/span><\/p>\n Miller, Carolyn Lisa, Note: “What a Waste. Beautiful, Sexy Gal. Hell of a Lawyer.”: Film and the Female Attorney<\/em><\/u>, 4 Colum. J. Gender & L.<\/u> 203 (1994). Lengthy commentary on Presumed Innocent<\/u>.<\/span><\/p>\n Papke, David Ray, Judging Amy,<\/i> in Lawyers in Your Living Room, (Michael Asimov ed., ABA, 2010) at 233. <\/span><\/p>\n Rapoport, Nancy, Swimming With Shark,<\/i> in Lawyers in Your Living Room, (Michael Asimov, ed., ABA, 2010) at 163.<\/span><\/p>\n Ray, Laura Krugman, Judicial Fictions: Images of Supreme Court Justices in the Novel, Drama and Film<\/em>, 39 Ariz. L. Rev.<\/u> 151 (1997).<\/span><\/p>\n Schulz, Jennifer, girls club Does Not Exist, <\/i>in Lawyers in Your Living Room, (Michael Asimov, ed. ABA, 2010) at 243.<\/span><\/p>\n Seibel, Deborah Starr, Outrageous Lawyers: A Crop of Television Lawyers Takes On the Real World<\/em>, Chi. Tribune<\/u>, April 28, 1991, Womanews Section, at 11.<\/span><\/p>\n Shapiro, Carole, A Woman Lawyer’s Perspective on Film<\/em>, N.Y.L.J.<\/u>, February 7, 1994, at 2.<\/span><\/p>\n Shapiro, Carole, Women lawyers in celluloid: Why Hollywood skirts the truth<\/em>, 25 U. Tol. L. Rev.<\/u> 955 (1994).<\/span><\/p>\n Sharp, Cassandra, Ally McBeal: Life and Love in the Law,<\/i> (Michael Asimov, ed., ABA, 2010) at 221. <\/span><\/p>\n Sheffield, Ric S., On film: a social history of women lawyers in popular culture 1930 to 1990<\/em>, 14 Loy. L.A. Ent. L.J.<\/u> 73 (Fall 1993). Sheffield’s piece is particularly interesting for its account of older films in which women lawyer characters make an appearance.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nMader, Shannon, Law & Order<\/i>, in Lawyers in Your Living Room (Michael Asimow, ed.; ABA, 2010), at 117.<\/span><\/p>\n